Jack Ryan, a subcontracted analyst for the CIA runs the pictures past a friend who conteplates the idea of a new "Worm" or jet propulsion that would bring in outside water and compress it and move the submarine through the water virtually soundless and without the unique signature that the "screws" or propellers give each boat or submarine--like that submarine's own fingerprint. ... A staged explosion of a submarine assures the rescured crew that the captain and other senor members of the crew scuttled the ship rather than to turn it over to the enemy, The United States Of America. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We had to take the whole gun apart and screw the barrel off, and then put another barrel on. ... We had to take the whole gun down, screw the barrel off, put a new barrel on, then loosen it three clicks, it was a pain. ... In August 1942, when the United States was just beginning to turn its peacetime strength into military power, the British and Canadians actually made a small amphibious test raid across the Channel. it was aimed at the small French port of Dieppe. ... By then they felt that the tide of the war had turned. the Russians had stopped the Germans at the Russian city of Stalingrad...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by William Golding sums up his view of the soul of mankind. This feeling is shared by many authors, especially modern ones. ...

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• Grade Level: High School